When a partition is not aligned by 4KB, mount -o dax succeeds,
but any read/write access to the filesystem fails, except for
metadata update.

Call bdev_supports_dax() to perform proper precondition checks
which includes this partition alignment check.

Reported-by: Micah Parrish <micah.parr...@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hpe.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.ker...@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |   11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 304c712..e7ca71c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3416,16 +3416,9 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void 
*data, int silent)
        }
 
        if (sbi->s_mount_opt & EXT4_MOUNT_DAX) {
-               if (blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) {
-                       ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
-                                       "error: unsupported blocksize for dax");
-                       goto failed_mount;
-               }
-               if (!sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access) {
-                       ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
-                                       "error: device does not support dax");
+               err = bdev_supports_dax(sb, blocksize);
+               if (err)
                        goto failed_mount;
-               }
        }
 
        if (ext4_has_feature_encrypt(sb) && es->s_encryption_level) {

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